CCTV News (News Network): General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that we should promote the deep integration of regional coordinated development strategies, major regional strategies, and main functional area strategies, optimize the layout of major productive forces, promote the rational flow and efficient agglomeration of various factors, and smooth the domestic circulation. Since the beginning of this year, the mainland has deeply implemented the strategy of coordinated regional development, the power source of high-quality development has continued to grow, the degree of regional integration has been deepened, and the coordinated development of the region has moved to a higher level.
High-quality promotion of regional coordinated development is a major matter that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about. In 2023, from south to north and from east to west, General Secretary Xi Jinping traveled to major regions and presided over four forums on coordinated regional development, pointing out the direction of development for how each region can better play its comparative advantages, achieve complementary advantages, enhance the balance and coordination of regional development, and point out the direction of development.
In the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta and other power source areas, he stressed that it is necessary to become a demonstration area and leading place for Chinese-style modernization, and better play the role of "pioneering and exploring". In the Yangtze River Economic Belt, he stressed the need to further promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and better support and serve Chinese-style modernization. In the Northeast region, he stressed that it is necessary to maintain the "five major security" such as national defense and food, and embark on a new path of high-quality development and sustainable revitalization to achieve the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China.
In 2023, the central government will strengthen the top-level design of regional coordinated development, merge multiple leading groups such as the development of the western region, the revitalization of the northeast, and the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and set up a special central leading group for regional coordinated development.
In 2023, focusing on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we will lead the construction of the first echelon of China's high-quality development to the depth. In Xiong'an New Area, the newly completed Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park has ushered in a large number of innovative enterprises to sign up for settlement.
The continuous gathering of popularity and heat has made Xiong'an, the city of the future, burst with strong vitality, and now, there are 219 high-tech enterprises from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have taken root in Xiong'an. At present, a map of the development of key industrial chains in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is being drawn up, and the exchanges between the three places are closer.
In the Yangtze River Delta, the country's first cross-provincial territorial spatial planning has been implemented, and under the same blueprint, the Yangtze River Delta region has a unified 2,413 square kilometers of land and space planning. Today, there are more than 110,000 high-tech enterprises here, accounting for nearly 30% of the country's total.
In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a series of reform and innovation measures have been introduced to support the development of Hengqin, Qianhai, Hetao and other regions, promoting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to build a world-class innovation platform and growth pole. Today, the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" science and technology cluster has ranked second in the world in terms of innovation capacity for four consecutive years.
The "River Strategy" has been implemented in depth, and high-level protection and high-quality development go hand in hand. The "Law on the Protection of the Yellow River" came into force this year, establishing a legal system for the effective protection of the Yellow River. The Yangtze River has firmly implemented a ten-year fishing ban, and chemical enterprises have been cleared within 1 kilometer along the line, and now, the main stream of the Yangtze River and the main stream of the Yellow River have reached Class II water quality.
On the basis of ecological priority, innovation-driven development is gaining momentum in an all-round way, and the "science and technology innovation corridor" connecting the upstream, midstream and downstream of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is accelerating. In the first half of 2023, the GDP of the 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt contributed more than 50% to the national economic growth. This year, the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle has been accelerated in an all-round way, the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China has been solidly promoted, and a new pattern of coordinated regional development is accelerating on the map of China.
In the first three quarters, 10 of the 17 provinces with GDP growth outperforming the national average were in the central and western regions. Today, the urbanization rate of the mainland has exceeded 65%, and the development of urban and rural areas is more coordinated. In the Global Innovation Index 2023 report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization not long ago, 14 cities in China were shortlisted among the top 100 science and technology clusters in the world, including the eastern and central regions, as well as the northwest and northeast regions. In the first year of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the synergy between the east and the west, the north and the south has been deepened, new growth poles have been emerging, common prosperity has been steadily promoted, and regional coordinated development at a higher level is injecting surging impetus into Chinese modernization.
Editor: Wu Jiahong
Source: CCTV